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MirandaLo

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on: Jul 25, 2018
How is a gamelan conducted?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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How is a gendhing named? (See margin note in WOM, p. 224 and description on p.227) and to what do the different parts of the title of CD 2:4 refer?
 
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samiel-sayed

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Reply #1 on: Jul 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1

 The drummer in a Javanese gamelan acts as conductor, controlling the tempo and the dynamics . . . The drummer's conducting' is accomplished purely through sound signals while the drummer sits unobtrusively in the middle of the ensemble.

Answer to Question 2

 Javanese gendhing normally have three parts to their titles, the formal structure, the melody, and the scale system.
Bubaran refers to the formal structure of the piece; in this case, bubaran means sixteen beats per major phrase, four kenong beats per major phrase. (The kenong is the largest of the kettle gongs.)
 Kembang Pacar (a kind of red flower) is the name of a particular melody.
 plog is the scale system used in the modal category of pathet nem.


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